Sugar Creek Station Skilled Nursing and Rehabilita
351 Causeway Drive, Franklin PA 16323 · (814) 437-0100 · 74.32% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Sugar Creek Station Skilled Nursing and Rehabilita is a large non-profit nursing home located in Franklin, Pennsylvania. It looks like this is a fine nursing home. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a favorable rating. This place truly has plenty of good features. We were also pleased to find that this place did not have any weak links in any of the four major categories. More information about its category grades can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 148 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this place also received first-rate government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category, with an A. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing. We awarded it an B+ for that category. Nursing grades are primarily tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides high levels of nursing care, averaging 3.9 hours per resident on a daily basis. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Lastly, this facility also excelled in several of the quality measures we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by providing better nursing care and a system of moving patients at least once a day.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next best area was its short-term care grade, where it was given a grade of B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is considered to be a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 37.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.
Long-term Care Quality
Our next area is long-term care, in which we awarded this nursing home a C in this category. Long-term care grades are used to judge a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. In addition to looking at the high volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this facility, we also were happy with the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.51691 percent of its residents, which is very respectable. This combination proved to be effective as this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sugar Creek Station Skilled Nursing and Rehabilita Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric may be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for treating several conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients showing signs of depression. Increased rates of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better